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Our Story
Our Beginnings
Launched by a Vision, Sustained by a Mission
In the mid-1990s, four men—Bill Jack, Jeff Baldwin, Todd Kent, and Randy Sims—recognized the need for deep, rigorous, Christ-centered teaching for young Christians. They observed that while many teens grew up in the church, they often struggled to understand how their faith applied beyond Sunday morning. In response, they founded Worldview Academy—a place where students could be challenged intellectually, spiritually, and culturally.
The first camp welcomed just 40 students. The vision was simple: train young people to become leaders who think biblically, love truth, and influence their world for Christ.
“Worldview Academy helps you discover and apply the Bible’s timeless wisdom on how to think, how to live, and how to lead.”
Why we started Worldview Academy
In the 1990’s, the writing was already on the wall. To bring the hope of the Gospel to an increasingly post-Christian culture, the next generation would need leaders with a deep-rooted and profoundly biblical faith.
They would need to be trained in grace and truth, equipped in the key areas of biblical worldview, apologetics, and servant leadership. And the work of formation would need to begin early, in the pivotal teen years. Four visionary men came together in 1996 to figure out how to accomplish this task, and the result was Worldview Academy.
Bill Jack had a passion for evangelism and apologetics. Jeff Baldwin brought his insight into worldview thinking and the humanities. Todd Kent possessed a love for theology and its interaction with politics and government. Randy Sims understood servant leadership and how to create an intensive camp experience to shape students intellectually and spiritually.
Together they developed a week-long curriculum for teens that would address culture, science, politics, family, art — the whole divine plan for human flourishing — from the underlying assumption of God’s absolute sovereignty over all creation. Starting with just forty students and a handful of staff, they launched a series of intensive week-long summer camps across the nation that has gone on to train more than 42,000 students to think and live in accord with a biblical worldview. At the end of 2020, longtime faculty member Michael P. Schutt took the helm as Worldview Academy’s new executive director, building on the legacy of the founders to train the next generation in grace and truth.
They would need to be trained in grace and truth, equipped in the key areas of biblical worldview, apologetics, and servant leadership. And the work of formation would need to begin early, in the pivotal teen years. Four visionary men came together in 1996 to figure out how to accomplish this task, and the result was Worldview Academy.
Bill Jack had a passion for evangelism and apologetics. Jeff Baldwin brought his insight into worldview thinking and the humanities. Todd Kent possessed a love for theology and its interaction with politics and government. Randy Sims understood servant leadership and how to create an intensive camp experience to shape students intellectually and spiritually.
Together they developed a week-long curriculum for teens that would address culture, science, politics, family, art — the whole divine plan for human flourishing — from the underlying assumption of God’s absolute sovereignty over all creation. Starting with just forty students and a handful of staff, they launched a series of intensive week-long summer camps across the nation that has gone on to train more than 42,000 students to think and live in accord with a biblical worldview. At the end of 2020, longtime faculty member Michael P. Schutt took the helm as Worldview Academy’s new executive director, building on the legacy of the founders to train the next generation in grace and truth.
We Shape Leaders
A lot of organizations talk about culture, theology, and apologetics. That’s a good thing. Still, there’s something that makes Worldview Academy unique. Our approach to every subject starts by digging into the foundations, examining the underlying assumptions, lifting the hood to see how the engine of rival philosophies work.